Newsday TV Book, October 21-27, 1973.

I posted the cover to this week's issue a long time ago (in a look at the previous October '73 issues) but never bothered to write up a more detailed take on the contents. Well, let's remedy that right now! We don't even need a reason! This whole blog doesn't!

Here's that cover again, with a Telly Savalas-shaped alien spheroid menacing the Big Apple.
(Pics clickable to make legible, unless I screwed something up.)

The cover story is remarkable, not because of Aristotle Savalas' upbringing in Garden City, but because I don't think I've ever caught Newsday printing the word "bullshit" before! Carol Burton, really! (And the phrase “slightly faggy” is in there too, oy…)

This week, poopymouth TV Line editor Carol Burton chose to answer the queries of K.G. of Massapequa Park, who wants Alfred Hitchcock to come out of the shadows, and reprinted Bob Johnson's familiar warning to Mr. Phelps for A.D. of Mineola.

Sunday morning, with A&C comin' round the mountain, B-Boys going to war, Wonderama riveting sleepy kiddies with grainy old baseball footage and Bob McAllister squinting at smudgy fingerprint whorls, and WOR channel 9 airing the 7th game of the World Series (or not, I really can't be bothered to check).

The caustic John Cashman snarks up some Monday late-night reviews (actually most of these are pretty nice), and Gary Viskupic sends up the country opera.

Here are listings for Tuesday evening, just because it's another chance to present that super-cool Hicks Nurseries (of Westbury) Halloween ad, previously presented in a slightly different context (namely, 1974).

More Cashman for late Thursday, and another Viskupic take, this time on Disney's Golden Anniversary.

Now, without commentary (not because it's not merited, I just got things to do!), here's all day Friday and Saturday. Please note the switch back to Eastern Standard Time, which meant Viewpoint on Nutrition was going to end thirty minutes before it started. Which, without ever having seen it, I'd bet is the ideal way to watch Viewpoint on Nutrition.

Whoops, I almost forgot that I wanted to note this great Viskupic portrait for "The Return of Phoenix" on CBS' Festival of Lively Arts for Young People.

Lastly, the back cover is, sigh, yet another dull bank ad, I mean like zzzzsville for real, baby. So to liven up this here finale, here's... Westrock Beef with a Veteran's Day sale!!

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---hnh? You still here? It's late! Like Viewpoint on Nutrition late! Hit the bricks!

'til next time, absurdly specific nostalgia junkies...

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